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The Out Campaign: Scarlet Letter of Atheism

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Kill your television

I’VE always been inter­ested in tak­ing things apart. When I was a little Mut I’d nick one of my dad’s screw­drivers and take the handles off the doors in our house in Ton­teg, once mem­or­ably trap­ping my mum in the bath­room while my then-three-year-old sis had a scream­ing fit down­stairs. After doors I moved on to watches and clocks - includ­ing the one my grand­dad received when he retired from the Fire Bri­gade (I man­aged to get it back together with only five screws and a spring left over) - then remote con­trols, ste­reos, my par­ents’ Insta­matic cam­era, and pretty much […]

What the Vick?

SO I’M going through the chan­nels tonight try­ing to find some­thing to watch when I come across some show called The Michael Vick Pro­ject on BET (for those of you lucky enough not to get Amer­ican telly, that’s Black Enter­tain­ment Tele­vi­sion). The descrip­tion reads, “Michael Vick works with the Humane Soci­ety of the United States in his efforts to end dog­fight­ing”.

My brain is moment­ar­ily befuddled. “Michael Vick?” I think to myself. “Why does that name ring a bell? Wait… that Michael Vick? The sack of shit who was con­victed of dog­fight­ing? The rep­re­hens­ible scum-sucking puke who only did 21 months in […]